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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 10:5

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When ye blow an alarm, etc.] Making a broken, uneven, and quavering sound, which is called a “tara-tan-tara”: then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward; the camps of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, which lay to the east of the tabernacle, at the front of it; (see <040103>Numbers 1:3,5,7); this was to be the token for their march, which was first of all; (<041014>Numbers 10:14).
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